#jazz daredevil

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H. Jon Benjamin, The “Jazz Daredevil” Who Still Doesn’t Really Know How to Play Piano, Jams Out with Stephen Colbert and Jon Batiste and Stay Human

One of the silliest things that H. Jon Benjamin has ever done in his illustrious career as a professional silly person is recording an entire jazz album with real jazz musicians without really knowing how to play jazz (or an instrument for that matter). 

The album was called “Well, I Should Have...* Jon Benjamin-Jazz Daredevil” and the session players really didn’t know what was going on before they started recording.

On last night’s Colbert, Benjamin did a rare live performance from the album with Colbert’s house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human as well as Stephen Colbert himself on trumpet*. 

*Stephen also says he doesn’t know how to play the trumpet.

Enjoy some top shelf goofing around here.

Also, you can get your own very copy of “Well, I Should Have...* Jon Benjamin-Jazz Daredevil” here.

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H Jon Benjamin - Well I Should Have... Learned How To Play Piano

his Video is proof that Jon still haven't taken piano lessons as he join the stage with award winning band Blu Pi in Akron, OH 10/3/2017 at EJ Thomas Hall for The University Of Akron Homecoming. It was an night of laughs, jazz and memories.

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Jon Benjamin - Jazz Daredevil - "Well I should have...*Learned how to play piano"

Jon Benjamin is a comedian, actor, & aspiring Jazz pianist recognized by many for his buttery vocal chords which have given depth and purpose to such characters as Bob from Bob’s Burgers, Archer from Archer, and Coach McGuirk from Home Movies. He’s also been seen gracing the sets of the national comedy treasures that are Master of None & Wet Hot American Summer. The following is a couple words from Jon Benjamin on his recent foray into the music industry:

We all start from the same place and build from there, gathering references, structures, techniques, modes, nuances, etc. and, as artists, we strive to build some- thing purposeful. Well, I Should Have…* is the culmination of hours (almost 3) of conception with the goal to bring something, in the tradition of the great vanguard jazz artists like Miles Davis, Roach, Mingus, Monk, et al, close to pure spontaneity. Jazz is the ocean…I am just one wave forming one curl, crashing once onto some remote beach somewhere in time. And that wave makes a small imperceptible change in the slope of the sand, upon which at some point in time a baby turtle will walk across, leaving his trail for just an instant, before the tide washes it clean. That’s a pretty cool analogy. More to the point, I do not play piano and I made this jazz album. Some tell me, “Hey, Jon, tone it down.” Some even say, “Really, Jon?” A few have said, “Get the fuck away from me or I’ll fucking punch you in the face.” I know the risks in making this album. I know what it is like to do something that no one else would think to do. Most would call this reckless. I call it jazz. What you are about to experience is an aural auto da fe. I am the jazz daredevil.

– Jon, New York City, July 2015

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The Jon Benjamin segment starts at 1:04:09.

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There wasn’t really much of a Wednesday Banger on my mind this week, but I have been listening to Jon Benjamin aka The Jazz Daredevil’s debut album, Well, I Should Have... and the opening track is gold.

If you’re familiar with Jon Benjamin’s works (Archer, Bob’s Burgers, etc) then you’ll recognize the rest of the cast of this track as well. The rest of the album is worth listening to too, if you’re interested in the experiment that Benjamin is pursuing. You can find out more regarding the concept by watching this video. Essentially someone who doesn’t even like jazz that much and who has never touched a piano is getting together with legitimately talented jazz musicians to create an album. The result.. well show it to your friends and find out. 

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Voice of a generation.